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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Senator Currie made some very important points about what is possible with remote and flexible working. Unless we see substantial change, this landmark legislation, as the Department describes it, will be a lost opportunity, especially given that Ireland is the member state with the highest share of jobless lone parents and jobless persons with a permanent disability in the European Union....

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I second it.

Seanad: Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Feb 2022)

Marie Sherlock: The Tánaiste is very welcome to the House. I pay tribute to the work of the One Galway and One Cork movement, which did a significant amount of campaigning and work to bring this issue to national attention. I pay tribute also to the work of Senator Gavan and his colleagues who introduced the National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill back in 2017. When the campaign...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jan 2022)

Marie Sherlock: The Labour Party very much supports Senator Chambers's call for a debate on what is being put in place for those in this country who suffer from endometriosis. As we know, it is a silent disease and imposes such a cost on young women in respect of their education and family and social life, in addition to so much else. The issue I want to raise this morning relates to a discussion that has...

Seanad: Violence Against Women: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for being present for these statements. I start by expressing my heartfelt sympathy to the family, boyfriend, friends and community of Ashling Murphy. They are living through the nightmare we all fear for our mothers, aunts, sisters, daughters and friends. I also express my deepest sympathy to the family of Urantsetseg Tserendorj who also died in a random attack 12...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Funding (20 Jan 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Minister of State for coming into the House today. My question relates to the funding for the north inner city drug and alcohol task force. This is an issue Deputy Feighan and I have spoken about previously. There has been what I consider to be a new development with regard to the task force in that a meeting took place last week between the HSE and the directors of the task force....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Funding (20 Jan 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. It is regrettable that he started off by calling out that I was being negative. I acknowledged that the services are being funded, but the Minister of State did not address the operational funding for the drugs and alcohol task force in the north inner city. I do not know where the Minister of State is getting his information from, but he is...

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. I also thank the Leader of the House, Senator Doherty, for granting us Government time in order to progress this Bill. We are very grateful for that. A lot has happened since this Bill was introduced and since Second Stage was debated last May. The main driver and proposer of the Bill, former Senator Ivana Bacik, is now in the other...

Seanad: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2021)

Marie Sherlock: As there are no other speakers, I ask the Minister of State to respond.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (9 Dec 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. We have previously spoken about Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire on Parnell Square and yet again unfortunately this morning we are back to talk about this school because there is another delay. Last year we were told by the Department of Education that the sod would be turned in November 2021. That has not happened. At the start of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (9 Dec 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State. I am conscious that she has had to convey the situation of the Department when the matter does not strictly come within her remit. I am more worried now on foot of this written response from the Department than I was when I made my opening contribution. First, the reply seeks to pin the delays on the negotiations with Youth Work Ireland. It is very clear...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I too express dismay at reports the British Government intends to impose checks on non-British or Irish citizens for travel into the North or Britain. Effectively, what is being proposed will amount to some sort of introduction of a hard border, if the British Government is talking about introducing checks. It is another example of the ill-thought-out back-of-the-envelope thinking on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2021)

Marie Sherlock: -----and absolute disregard for the North that we have seen time and again from this British Government. I would like a debate when we get more detail on this but it is important we express our dismay at what we are learning this morning. On a more positive note, I very much welcome the announcement last week by Government on the regularisation of undocumented people. This has been a...

Seanad: Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: An Tuarascáil agus an Chéim Dheiridh - Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2019: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Chambers, chuig an Seanad um thráthnóna. Sula dtosóimid, meabhraím do Sheanadóirí nach bhféadfaidh Seanadóir labhairt ach uair amháin ag Céim na Tuarascála ach amháin tairgeoir leasaithe, a bhféadfaidh freagairt don phlé ar an leasú. Ina theannta sin, ag...

Seanad: Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: An Tuarascáil agus an Chéim Dheiridh - Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2019: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Is oth liom a rá go bhfuil leasú Uimh. 5 as ord.

Seanad: Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: An Tuarascáil agus an Chéim Dheiridh - Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2019: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Tá baint idir leasuithe Uimh. 6 agus 7 agus is féidir iad a phlé le chéile.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. I am conscious that the Finance Bill has spent many hours under consideration in the Dáil and will confine my remarks to a small number of specific issues. Senator Casey very eloquently talked about the need to fix the EWSS. Many of us across this Chamber have fielded calls from hoteliers, and from those who work in the night-time...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Dec 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I join in Senator Maria Byrne's call for the full reinstatement of the employment wage subsidy scheme. It will be vital to business continuity because of the restrictions that have been reimposed on the night-life sector and the effect of restrictions in place on other sectors at this time. The main issue I wish to raise, however, is the revised mica scheme published on Tuesday. It is an...

Seanad: Covid-19 and the New Measures (Health): Statements (1 Dec 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Covid-19 and the New Measures (Health): Statements (1 Dec 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister very much for coming to the House. I join with Senators Malcolm Byrne and Gavan in condemning the protests outside every Government Minister's house, and in particular the Minister's own house. It is simply not acceptable in our democracy that the families of public representatives would be targeted in that way. I express that solidarity. As the Minister will know...